If the day ever comes when the sackcloth-and-ashes ethic has us scooting about in enclosed golf carts with lawn mower engines or electric motors, Nissan's V-6 will be among the most-mourned casualties of the aggressive downsizing underway in the industry. Widely used by Nissan and its Infiniti luxury line, the engine is sheer driving delight. You could put the V-6, its displacement now boosted to 3.7 liters from 3.5, into a dilapidated Yugo (redundant?) and wind up with a car more delightful than disappointing. With joy, we report that a junkyard Yugo is not this week's target. It is the revised, freshened, updated, … [Read more...]